Sidney Rigdon Released from Jail

30 January 1839

Sidney Rigdon released on bail but remained in jail a few more days as safety precaution, Liberty, Clay County, Missouri.

Hyrum Smith, Diary, [6]–[7]; Sidney Rigdon, Testimony, Nauvoo, IL, 1 July 1843, pp. [23]–[24], Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL; Jessee, “Prison Experience,” 29; Burnett, Recollections and Opinions, 53–55.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Smith, Hyrum. Diary, Nov. 1832–Apr. 1833. Hyrum Smith, Papers, 1832–ca. 1911. BYU.

Nauvoo, IL. Records, 1841–1845. CHL. MS 16800.

Jessee, Dean C. “‘Walls, Grates and Screeking Iron Doors’: The Prison Experiences of Mormon Leaders in Missouri, 1838–1839.” In New Views of Mormon History: A Collection of Essays in Honor of Leonard J. Arrington, edited by Davis Bitton and Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, 19–42. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1987.

Burnett, Peter H. Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer. New York: D. Appleton, 1880.

Sidney Rigdon Released from Jail

30 January 1839

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